Each year members of the Southern Region are encouraged to nominate qualified collaborative pianists for the James Ronald Brothers Collaborative Pianist Award. To qualify, the nominees must have rendered five or more years of service to the region through collaborative accompanying at the annual fall auditions, including the year of nomination, must demonstrate high achievement as a collaborative pianist, and should exhibit an encouraging and mentoring attitude toward his/her assigned singers.
Winners of this award have included:
- Tyler Kemp, Mississippi College
- Charles Lloyd, Jr., Southern University
- Laura Long, Blue Mountain College
- Gini Law, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
- Richard Seiler, University of Louisiana at Monroe
- Susan Monroe, Ouachita Baptist University
- Kumiko Shimizu, Delta State University
- Geraldine Hubbell, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Ann B. Rye, Henderson State University
- Charles Effler, Southeastern Louisiana University
- Phyllis Walker, Ouachita Baptist University
- Maria Curry, Louisiana State University
- Cindy Fuller, Ouachita Baptist University
- Ann Simpson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Raisa Vordman, Southeastern Louisiana University
- Neva White, Harding University
- Carol Joy Sparkman, Mississippi College
- Gay Grosz, Centenary College
(This list is a work in progress. If you know of persons who should be included on this list and are not, please send that information to the region governor).